Students

The department generally graduates between 12 and 20 chemistry majors per year.  Over the past 15 years, 12 of these chemistry majors have garnered special awards such as NSF and ACS graduate fellowships, Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowships, and Beckman fellowships. Three have been selected to receive the college's most prestigious academic award, the Williamson Medal, at graduation.

More than 70% of our chemistry majors have pursued postgraduate education by attending graduate school, medical school, or law school. Some choose to go directly to positions with companies such as DuPont and Merck, while others obtain business degrees (MBA). Among recent chemistry graduates 30% have gone to medical school, 40% to graduate school. 100% of the F&M Chemistry majors who apply to graduate or medical school are accepted by at least one institution; many are accepted to all of the institutions to which they apply. See maps below for graduate and medical schools attended.

Many alumni are practicing physicians or chemists (either in industry or the academic world) but the job titles below reflect a wide variety of career choices.
 -Engineer
 -Professor of Art Conservation (Winterthur Museum)
 -Marketing Manager (Pfizer)
 -Clean Chemistry Team Leader (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
 -Associate Editor (American Chemical Society)
 -Counsel, Intellectual Property (National Starch and Chemical Co.)
 -College President
 -Reference and Systems Librarian
 -Forensic Scientist
 -Veterinarian

Students may elect to attend graduate school to pursue a degree in engineering, either after obtaining their B.A. in chemistry from F&M or as part of F&M's 3-2 Cooperative Engineering Program.

Graduate Schools Attended 

Medical Schools Attended